Billy Rose Quotes
Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song
Quotes to Explore
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.
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Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
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There's such a dark cloud over this, it's disappointing. As a kid, you wondered who'd be the next guy to pass Ruth or maybe Aaron. We're talking about a great, great player in Barry Bonds, but there's that black cloud, and I just think we all wish it could go away.
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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
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Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song
